Dole v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 1109 · 1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2002
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. Carr · United States v. Bishop
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decline[d] to enter into any controversy relating to distinctions which may be drawn between executive agreements and treaties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no way for [the court to] ascertain[] the interest of the United States . . . in the controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.